To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!

Dada Bhagwan
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When people are doing something, they should be fully engaged in it. They should not just go through the motions. They should be doing it for the right reasons, because they want to. This means that when people are doing an activity, they should not just be doing that activity for show or to secure their place in society.

Rather, they should be doing the activity because it is what they really want to do. When people are inactive while engaged in activity, this is not so much inactivity as it is non-doership.

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